Job Description & Requirements

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Demonstrate knowledge of essential network services such as DNS, NFS, LDAP/Kerberos, Apache, NTP, sendmail/postfix/etc, and OpenSSH
2. Build architecture and protocols with 802.3, 802.11, TCP/IP, and UDP
3. Demonstrate a deep understanding of the GNU/Linux operating system
4. Scripting with Perl, Bash or Python
5. Provide Linux platform architecture guidance, research technical issues
6. Act as Linux subject matter expert, providing technical leadership across all IT disciplines
7. Performing systems administration, maintenance, and engineering in multiple large enterprise server environments (Linux, Red Hat, CentOS)
8. Maintain Linux-based servers, both hardware and software
9. Manage in-house developed applications that run on the Linux systems
10. Load balancing and failover

Responsibilities:

• Ensures proper security is in place on Linux-based systems by conducting audits and implementing solutions to centralize access management and reporting
• Provides direction to System Administrators to ensure proper deployment, configuration, and testing of RHEL Linux systems, applications, and security patches
• Identify issues and risks, resolve problems and escalate them as necessary
• Serve as an escalation resource for staff that provides 24x7 (on-call) system supports
• Cross functional engineering knowledge across the technology stack
• Implement processes and procedures for maintaining all server environments helps create/update documentation
• Identify issues and risks, resolves problems and escalates them as necessary
• Coordinate the installation, configuration and maintenance of UNIX server equipment, storage and back-up systems terminal servers
• Exposure to systems
• Develop baseline systems configuration and controls using Chef configuration management

Qualifications

• 5-8 years’ experience in enterprise systems operations or systems engineering
• College degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related disciplines
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with service offerings from Amazon Web Services
• Implement Configuration management and automation using Puppet
• Day to day support of Unix systems and users
• Hardware and OS management of Hadoop/NoSQL systems